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"noframemerging" in Edge is not supported
Me too! We develop a Health Application in IE11. We would like to use Edge instead of IE11.
Doctors share the same computer to use our application (and same table and chair) each one of them with their own session opened with a shortcut with noframemerging / nomerge that has been working for years (from IE6)...
With edge this is not working.
We were trying to use profiles for that and we almost succeed.
We make the shortcut with a program that do something like: read localstate file to find all our opened profiles and find out which of them were actives or inactives.
If there is any inactive profile we open our url with it. If not, we create a new one from Default, but changing the preferences to set clear_data_on_exit.
That way we don't need to create a new one each time (probably hundreds or thousands of them in a little time) each time a user open our application.
It seemed that it worked, but then we wanted to use --app= for open in app mode, and it stopped working.
We have filled a bug in: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1211387
Issue 1211387: Local State: when open with "--app=URL", the attribute "last_active_profiles" of "Local State" file is not updated with the profile that is using it.
Any ideas? Can Microsoft help in the resolution of this bug until Microsoft give a real solution to the nomerge problem?
We think a replace for nomerge functionality is a must for a browser to support enterprise applications that have completely different scenarios that people using their own computer at home to browse internet.
And this replacement has to be specified as a browser feature easy to be used, without reading or writing browser files that maybe will change in next version of the browser.
The lack of this feature is making us being sticky to IE11 instead of give the next step in the right direction with Edge.
- Kelly_Y
Microsoft
Hi Everyone! IE mode on Microsoft Edge will support nomerge starting in Microsoft Edge version 93. Currently it can be tested in Microsoft Edge v93 Beta channel: Download Microsoft Edge Insider Channels
Please see the FAQ for instructions:
Thanks!
-Kelly
Kelly_Y
We have run into a use case that doesn't work with the "no-merge" option.
- My sites.xml is configured as below:
<site url="xyz.com">
<open-in merge-type="no-merge">IE11</open-in>
</site>
- I've the site https://server1.xyz.com/app open in Edge in IE Mode. I'm in an active session as I am logging in to it.
- An external application opens https://server1.xyz.com/app/page1 in Edge in a new window with the --new-window switch.
Actual behavior: https://server1.xyz.com/app/page1 does NOT merge with the existing server1.xyz.com/app session. Instead, /apge1 opens in a new session and hence, I'm redirected to the login page i.e https://server1.xyz.com/app/login.
Expected behavior: We need https://server1.xyz.com/app/page1 to merge with the existing server1.xyz.com/app session. The /page1 should open as part of that existing session.
Updating the sites.xml as below did NOT resolve this item.
<site url="xyz.com/app">
<open-in merge-type="no-merge">IE11</open-in>
</site>
<site url="xyz.com/app/page1">
<open-in>IE11</open-in>
</site>
Are there any options to make this use case work as per our expectation? Although most workflows require session isolation that works with the "no-merge" option, we do have this one use case which is different.
Thanks.
Darshini- Kelly_Y
Darshini_Patel Hi! Since you are running into an issue with the specific scenario you mentioned, I think it would be best to either contact App Assure at https://aka.ms/AppAssure or Support
https://microsoftedgesupport.microsoft.com/hc/en-us. Using either of these options, they should be able to gather your information and help investigate your specific case. Thanks!
-Kelly
Hi Kelly_Y ,
With the end of IE's life in a few months, why don't we have this feature with Edge? Are there any plans to have this same functionality with Edge?
Thank you for your reply !
